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A syllable given more prominence in pronunciation than its neighbors is said to be accented. |
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| A narrative or description having a second meaning beneath the surface. |
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| The repetition at close intervals of the initial consonant sound of accented syllables or important words. (example: map, moon, missed, master) |
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| Repetition of an opening word or phrase in a series of lines. |
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| A figure of speech in which someone absent or sead or something nonhuman is addressed as if it were alive and present and could reply. |
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| Approximate Rhyme/Imperfect Rhyme/Near Rhyme/Slant Rhyme/Oblique Rhyme |
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Terms used for words in a rhyming pattern that have some kind of sound corrospondence but are not perfect rhymes. |
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| The repetition at close intervals of the vowel sounds of accented syllables or important words. |
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| A poem about dawn; a morning love song; or, a poem about the parting of lovers at dawn |
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| A fairly short narrative poem written in a songlike stanza form. |
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| Unrhymed iambic pentameter |
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| A harsh, discordant, unpleasant-sounding choice and arrangement of sounds |
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| A speech pause occurring within a line |
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| What a word suggests beyond its basic dictionary definition; a word's overtones of meaning. |
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| The repetition at close intervals of the final consonant sounds of accented syllables or important words. (example; book - plaque - thicker) |
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| That form of a poem in which the lines follow each other without formal grouping, the only breaks being dictated by units of meaning. |
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| Two successive lines, usually in the same meter, linked by rhyme |
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| The basic definition or dictionary meaning of a word |
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Poetry having as a primary purpose to teach or preach |
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| A rhyme in which the repeated vowel is in the second-to-last syllable of the words invilved (example: politely - rightly - spritely). This is one form of feminine rhyme. |
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| The situation, whether actual or fictional, realistic or fanciful, in which an author places his or her characters in order to express the theme. |
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Rhymes that occur at the ends of the lines |
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| A line that ends with a natural speech pause, usually marked by punctuation. |
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| English/Shakespearean Sonnet |
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| A sonnet rhyming ababcdcdefefgg. It usually falls into three coordinate quatrains and a concluding couplet. |
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| A smooth, pleasant-sounding choice and arrangement of sounds. |
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| A figure of speech (usually a metaphor, simile, pesonification, of apostrophe) sustained or developed through a considerable number of lines or through a whole poem. |
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A rhyme that matches two or more syllables at the end of the respective lines. Usually the final syllable is unstressed. Example: A woman's face with nature's own hand painted, Hast thou, the master mistress of my passion; A woman's gental heart, but not acquainted With shifting change, as is false women's fashion... |
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| Broadly, any way of saying something other than the ordinary way; more narrowly, a way of saying one thing and meaning another. |
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| The basic unit used in the measurment of metrical verse. |
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| Any form of poem in which the length and pattern are prescibed by previous usage or tradition (example: sonnet, villanelle, etc.) |
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| The external pattern or shape of a poem, describable without reference to its content, as continuous form, stanzaic form, fixed form, free verse (continuous) and syllabic verse. |
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| Non-metrical poetry in which the basic rhythmic unit is the line, and in which pauses, line breaks, and formal patterns develop organically from the requirements of the individual poem rather than from established poetic forms. |
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| Overstatement, exaggeration |
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| The representation through language of sense experience |
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| A rhyme in which one or both of the rhyme words occur(s) within the line |
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| A situation, or a use of language, involving some kind of incongruity or discrepancy. Three kinds are especially distinguished |
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| A figure of speech in which what is meant is the opposite of what is said. |
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| A device by which the author implies a different meaning from the intended by the speaker in a literary work. |
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| A situation in which threre is an incongruity between actual cicumstances and those that would seem appropriate, or between what is anticipated and what acutally comes to pass |
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| Italian/Patrarchan Sonnet |
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| A sonnet consisting of an octave rhyming abbaabba and of a sestet using any arrangement of two or three additional rhymes, such as cdcdcd or cdecde |
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| A rhyme in which the repeating accented vowel sound is in the final syllable of the words involved (example: dance-pants, scald-recalled) |
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A figure of speech in which an implicit comparison is made between two things essentially unlike |
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| The regular patterns of accent that underlie metrical verse; the measurable repetition of accented and unaccented syllables in poetry |
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| A figure of speech in which some significant aspect or detail of an experience is used to represent the whole experience. (Example: Pay tribute to the crown) |
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| The use of the part for the whole (example: the sailes were seen coming towards us) |
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| An 8 line stanza; or, the first 8 lines of a sonnet, especially one structured in the manner of an Italian Sonnet |
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| The use of words that supposedly mimic their meaning in their sound (example: boom, click, plop) |
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| A compact paradox in which two successive words seemingly contradict each other. |
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| A statement or situtation containing apparently contradictory or incompatible elements. |
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| A figure of speech in which human attributes are given to an animal, an object, or a concept |
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A 4 line stanza. A 4 line division of a sonnet marked off by its rhyme scheme. |
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| The repetition of the accented vowel sound and all succeeding sounds in important or importantly positioned words. |
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| Any fixed pattern of rhymes characterizing a whole poem or its stanzas. |
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| A line which has no natural speech pause at its end, allowing the sense to slow uninterruptedly into the succeeding line. |
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| A 6 line stanza, or the last 6 lines of a sonnet structured on the Italian model |
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| A figure of speech in which an explicit comparison is made between two things essentially unlike. |
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| A fixed form of 14 lines, normally iambic pentameter, with a rhyme scheme conforming to or approximating one of two main types - the Italian or the English |
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| A group of lines whose matrical pattern is repeated throughout the poem |
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| The internal organization of a poem's content; this term also applies to basic literature - novels and short stories. In addition to the internal ordering of the materials - the arrangement of ideas, images, throughts, lines, which we refer to as a poem's structure - the poet may impose some external pattern on a poem, may give it not only its internal order of materials but an external shape or form. |
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| A figure of speech in which something (object, person, situtation, or action) means more than what it is. It may be read both literally and metaphorically. |
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| A 3 line stanza exhibited in a villanelle as well as in other poetic forms. |
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| The central idea of a literary work |
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| The writer's or speaker's attitude toward the subject, the audience, or herself or himself; the emotional coloring, or emotional meaning of a work. It is an extremely important part of the total meaning. Almost all of the elements of poetry help to indicate its tone; connotation, imagery, and metaphor; irony and understatement; rhythm, sentance construction, and formal pattern. |
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| Metrical language; the opposite of prose |
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| A 19 line fixed form of 5 tercets rhymed aba and a concluding quatrain rhymed abaa, with lines 1 and 3 of the first tercet serving as refrains in an alternating pattern through line 15 and then repeated as lines 18 and 19 |
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The repetition of a key word, especially the last one, at the beginning of the next sentance or clause. |
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| An extended metaphor where two unlike things are compared in several different ways. AKA extended metaphore |
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| The author's choice of words. It has a great bearing of the meaning within. It can hold the key to themes, tone, and overall impact of a piece of work. |
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The omission of a word or words necessary for complete grammatical construction, but understood in the context. |
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The running on of a sentance from one line or couplet to the next, with little or no pause. Once riding in old Baltimore Heart-filled, head-filled with glee, I saw a Baltimorian Keep looking straight at me. |
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| A character who is not fully developed by an author. |
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| A character who provides a contrast to another character, usually to the protagonist, thus providing emphasis in the protagonist's traits. |
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| A narrative constructed fo that one or more stories are embedded within another story. |
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| Kinds or types of literature, or classification. |
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| The pride or overconfidence which often leads a hero to overlook divine warning or to break a moral law. The downfall of many in literature, and even sometimes a CEO in real life. |
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| A poetic and rhetorical device in which normally unassociated ideas, words or phrases are placed next to one another. It creates and effect of surprise and wit. |
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| An understatement employed for the purpose of enhancing the effect of the ideas expressed, contains a negative. |
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| The repeating of a phrase, clause or sentances that are similar in structure and meaning. Used to emphasize important ideas, create rhythm, and make their writing forceful and direct. |
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| A fully developed character. |
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| A change of feelings by the speaker from the beginning to the end. It pays particular attention to the conclusion af the literature, whether it is a peom, a short story, or a novel. |
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| The arrangement of words in a sentance. |
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| A more sophisticated way to say figurative language |
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| adversary: someone who offers opposition |
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| a short saying that expresses something true, a slogan, on the verge of cliche |
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| universal "ways of being" or looking at the world (example: Cheerleaders) |
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| when a character steps aside and says something to the audience that other characters don't hear |
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| The feeling created in the reader by a literary work or passage. |
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| the effect resulting from an unsucessful effort to achieve dignity or pathos; an unintentional dropping from the sublime to the ridiculous; the depth of stupidity. |
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| the emotional release an audience feels after the downfall of a tragic character. |
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| a long narrative poem recounting actions, travels, adventures, and heroic episodes and written in a high style |
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| Substitution of a delicate or inoffensive term or phrase for one that has coarse, sordid, or otherwise unpleasant associations, as in the use of "lavatory" or "rest room" for "toilet," and "pass away" for "die." |
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| A scene from the past that interrupts the action to explain motivation or reaction of a character to the immediate scene. |
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| a literary device in which an author drops subtle hints about plot developments to come later in the story |
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| a style of novel, especially popular in the late 18th and early 19th centuries, characterized by mysterious settings, an atmosphere of gloom and terror, supernatural happenings, and often violence and horror |
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| a short speech un-interrupted, that may be heard or witnessed by others. |
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| Reoccuring, in particular instances it is symbolic, but it is throughout the book. |
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| (didactic) Has a purpose that teaches something, abrupt, abrasive. It has a negative connotation. |
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| The angle from which the viewer see the objects or scene. |
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| the leading character in a literary work. |
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| Cheery, emotional, subjective experiences, focus on the individual, lots of inplausibility, exotic settings |
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| sarcasm: witty language used to convey insults or scorn |
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| The process of going through a poem and finding the stressed and unstressed marks |
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| The time, place, and culture in which the action of a narrative takes place. |
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| more emotional than a monologue. Others are not on the stage, shows an inner thought or termoil. |
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| This method of writing depicts the flow of thoughts, feelings, and perceptions of one or more characters. |
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| Figurative language in which parts stand for a whole (Example: his parents bought him a new set of wheels) |
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| A set of words that a group uses |
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| very similar to the truth, layer of the truth, core of truth |
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| can stand alone but a part of a whole with a common theme running throughout them |
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| more directly aligned with point of view than tone; perspective and point of view |
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